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HALTICrtfjE. 



upper side is brown, or the insect may be entirety brown. The 

 two or three apical segments of the antennae are usually black. 



Head broad, vertex convex, impunctate, frontal tubercles almost 

 entirely absent ; eyes strongly convex ; interantennal space broad, 

 bounded behind by a transverse, deeply-impressed, line ; clypeus 

 broad, hardly narrowed behind, and with a few punctures on its 

 surface. Antennae about two millimetres shorter than the length 

 of the body; the first segment the longest, club-shaped, second 

 much shorter but thicker than the third, which is slender, third, 

 fourth, and fifth almost equal to each other ; from the sixth 

 onwards the segments become very slightly thicker, more hairy 

 and almost equal to each other in length, the last being obliquely 

 pointed. Prothorax broader than long, anterior and posterior 

 margins almost straight (the latter may be very widely arched), 

 sides strongly rounded and narrowly margined, at the anterior 

 angles the margins are thickened and truncate, and on the 

 thickened corner there is a pore containing a seta, each of the 

 posterior angles also possesses a similar setigerous pore ; surface 

 smooth, convex and, seen under a high power, minutely and 

 sparsely punctate. Scutellum broad, triangular, smooth and im- 

 punctate. Elytra broader than prothorax. strongly convex, 

 narrowed towards the apex, seen under a high power to be very 

 minutely, irregularly and sparsely punctate. Underside : abdo- 

 minal sternites, more especially at the sides, and part of the rest 

 of the surface sparsely covered with fine hairs ; appendices of the 

 claws large and prominent. 



Length, 6-7 mm. ; breadth, 4-5 mm. 



Ceylon: Dikoya, 3800-4200 ft.; Bogawantalawa, 4900- 

 5200 ft,, 21.iii-4.iv. 1882 <G. Lewis); Halupahani, Haldum- 

 mulla (many specimens in the Andrewes Collection). 



Type in the British Museum. 



This is a variable species. There are four specimens in the 

 British Museum which have the body slightly shorter and which 

 differ from the type in one or two minor points, but I do not 

 propose to give them a new name. 



226. Chabria nigroplagiata, Jacoby. 



Chabria nigroplagiata, Jac, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1887, p. 93. 



Body ovate, strongly convex, narrowed behind. Underside 

 black ; tibiae brown ; tarsi piceous ; upper surface yellow-brown to 

 dark brown, with the following black markings: on the pronotum, 

 at the base and nearer the sides than the middle line, there are 

 two ill-defined patches, which may be entirely absent ; the edges 

 of the elytra and of the pronotum are sometimes stained black, 

 and on each elytron there are three patches : first, a post-basal 

 transverse band, which in some cases is divided into two in the 

 middle, the inner part more or les*s rounded and the outer part 

 extending in a triangular form towards the base ; secondly, there 



